• SESSI approves creation of endowment fund for rehabilitation and welfare of 78 children• Okays departmental action against 37 doctors and paramedical staff of its health facility
KARACHI: Days after the government confirmed that as many as 78 children had been infected with HIV/AIDS at the Sindh Employees’ Social Security Institution-run Kulsoom Bai Valika Hospital, the institution has allocated a sum of Rs2 billion to set up an endowment fund to provide long-term medical treatment and welfare support for the affected children, it emerged on Wednesday.
Contrary to a claim made by a petitioner before the Sindh High Court that the number of affected children was 200, Sindh Labour Minister Saeed Ghani had confirmed over the weekend that the government had data of 78 children who were infected with HIV/AIDS at Valika Hospital.
He had also assured the parents of the affected children of their complete medical treatment and promised every possible support.
On Wednesday, Ghani chaired the meeting of the Governing Body (GB) of the SESSI, where a substantial part of the meeting focused on the HIV cases detected among children treated at Valika Hospital.
